The line in a phase diagram above which only liquid is present.
Eutectic in ceramic.
The lowest temperature at which a simple mix of oxides will melt and react to form a transparent glass.
The basic microstructure of the obtained oxide eutectics can be generalized from the relative interfacial area unit volume and the volume fraction of the minor phase for the fibrous and lamellar ideals.
A mixture of a specific percentage ratio of substances that melts at a single temperature that is lower than the melting points of the separate constituents or of any other mixture of them.
All other ratios of silica and alumina have higher melting points.
The lowest melting temperature combination of two or more materials.
In ceramic eutectics there is strong tendency to form irregular patterns.
Among the oxide dsecs al 2 o 3 yag eutectic has been demonstrated as one of the most promising high temperature composites.
Methods of growing ceramic eutectics are reviewed.
Oxide eutectic ceramics are considered to be potentially ultra high temperature structural materials owing to their high melting points excellent oxidation resistance thermal stability and mechanical property at elevated temperatures 1700 2000 k.
However in the case of ceramics anisotropic growth impedes the soft adaptation of microstructure to the unavoidable front instabilities required for regular eutectic patterns.
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The temperature at which melting occurs is often an anomaly that is it is much lower than the melting temperatures of similar mixtures.
Mixtures of sio 2 and the alkalis and alkaline earth oxides are well studied in the area.
Eutectic oxide ceramics have attracted extensive recent attentions due to their excellent fracture strength toughness thermal stability and creep resistance at elevated temperatures.
Its flexural strength is 7 times of the sintered ceramic with the same eutectic composition at 1800 c and its creep strength is 13 times of the sintered ceramic at 1600 c.
Self adaptation takes place by means of small changes in the eutectic microstructure.
In ceramics this term refers to certain chemistries that melt at much lower than expected temperatures.
Because of their unusual anisotropic properties many metallic intermetallic metal ceramic and ceramic directionally solidified eutectics may find further use in structural materials electronic devices optical imaging light transmission devices piezoelectric and ferromagnetic applications.
